Boyce v. Sinclair
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 79 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM SCOTT CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 16 B. Mon,, 296; Carpenter Sp Grigsby vs. Strother. 18 B. 3fon., 289 ; Barrett vs. Churchill. 18 B. Mon., 781-2; Wyatt vs. Warfield. 4 Met., 41; Woodcock vs. Bowman. 2 Met., 516 ; Wells vs. Crawford. 3 Met., 525; Mattingly vs. Reed. 2 Met., 574; Bell vs. Clark. 2 Duvall, 294; Bell, Barkley Sp Co. vs. Hall’s ex’rs, dpc.
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CASE 79 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM SCOTT CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 16 B. Mon,, 296; Carpenter Sp Grigsby vs. Strother. 18 B. 3fon., 289 ; Barrett vs. Churchill. 18 B. Mon., 781-2; Wyatt vs. Warfield. 4 Met., 41; Woodcock vs. Bowman. 2 Met., 516 ; Wells vs. Crawford. 3 Met., 525; Mattingly vs. Reed. 2 Met., 574; Bell vs. Clark. 2 Duvall, 294; Bell, Barkley Sp Co. vs. Hall’s ex’rs, dpc. Act-of February 17, 1866. CITED— Myers’ Sup.,pp. 424, 425, 428, 429, 750, 752. Revised Statutes, chap. 86. 2 Duvall, 508 — 13 ; Woodcock, <^c., vs. Bowman. 4 Met., 43.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE WILLIAMS
delivered tiie opinion op the court:
Stephen Lucas, by his last will, devised one hundred and thirty acres of land to his wife for life, and then to his ten children in fee. Elijah Lucas, one of the children and devisees, died after his father’s decease, leaving Mrs. Boyce, then unmarried and a minor, his only child and heir-at-law; and J. D. Nelson w,as appointed her statutory guardian, who filed a petition in chancery, in his own and ward’s name, against Sinclair, to have her undivided tenth of this land sold, alleging that it would be beneficial to his ward.
The court ordered…
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